Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 26

Then the man in the tree answered, ‘Lift up thine eyes, for behold here I sit in the sack of wisdom; here have I, in a short time, learned great and wondrous things.

Who acts: man, I, short time · What happens: answer, lift up, sit, have, learn · To what, where: eyes, sack, great things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I, short time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 answered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Lift	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 Lift	punct
10	Lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 Lift	compound:prt
12	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 eyes	nmod:poss
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Lift	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sit	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 here	case
16	behold	behold	PUNCT	_	17 here	punct
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 sit	obl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 sit	nsubj
19	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Lift	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 sack	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sack	det
22	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sit	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 wisdom	case
24	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sack	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
26	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 have	advmod
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 time	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 time	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 time	det
32	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obl:unmarked
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 learned	punct
35	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 time	acl:relcl
36	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 things	amod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wondrous	cc
38	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 great	conj
39	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 learned	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the man in the tree			then	tree rules
2	lift up	infinitive		thine eyes			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	sit	present	I		the sack of wisdom		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sack=Location
4	have	present	I		here	time	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	learn	past	a short time not said here	great things			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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